So the guys at Bethesda let it slip a few months ago that Elder Scrolls V was in the works for 2010, and a friend said he read a possible release in 2009... I'm looking for the article, but I'm friggin' STOKED about a new Elder Scrolls game coming out in the next 12-18 months!!!

I think they can learn a lot with the successes and failures of their previous landmark releases like Morrowind, Oblivion and Fallout 3 and make ESV an absolute KICK ASS game!

It's late at night, approximately 11:30 pm. It's pitch black outside and you cant see that far ahead of you as you walk through the forest while a blizzard is hitting. Out of nowhere, you hear the growl of some ferocious beast, and you're not quite sure what it is. There is no red dot on your screen to warn you where the threat is coming from. You have to use your ears to figure it out.

I was just out exploring, sans compass and I see a frost troll right in front of some stairs...so I killed the **** out of it and headed up the stairs.

THE STORY CONTINUES WITH SOME MINOR SPOILERS

Spoiler!

I climb up the stairs and at the top, there is a dead Frost Troll. I think to myself, that's weird, I wonder what the **** is out here that killed this Frost Troll? So I continue to climb up another set of stairs. At the top of that, there is another dead Frost Troll. Now I know I've never been here, so it couldn't have been me that killed it. I wonder what is going on?

I get to the top of the next set of stairs (these are stone staircases going up a mountain btw), another 2 dead frost trolls. Now I'm freaking the **** out. I think to myself that whenever I get to the top of this mountain, I'm going to be greeted by some creature I've never seen before. I keep climbing, now there is one more dead frost troll, and like 4 charred human bodies. I get to the top and there is a Shout Temple or whatever they are called and I discovered the location Eldersblood Peak.

It was pretty cool. I never found any other creatures, I'm assuming it was a dragon that took them all out.

Either that or the poor Frost Troll I killed in the beginning of the story. He fought his way past all the other trolls, just to get taken down by the Dovahkiin. Poor little guy.

I think purchasing Skyrim on the PC instead of Console (I've been strictly console before this game and Battlefield 3), was the best gaming decision I've ever made.

Are FO3 and FO:NV anywhere as close to good as Skyrim is on the PC? I beat both on PS3, but want to know whether or not they are worth picking up in the next steam sale so I can add mods to them and play again.

With as aggressive as the mod community is with ES games, I'm not sure why anyone would buy a console version.

I have Morrowind and Oblivion and both have about two dozen mods on them at least. Oblivion might have up to 50. Plus, it's fun to use the construction set to make your own stuff.

I came late to the ES games, personally having only played Oblivion before. My husband bought it for himself as a used copy between release dates for games he wanted. I quickly took over his game and it became mine. I replayed that game so many times.

Other than the Total War games and a little Age of Empires, I've never really played any games pc. I played FFXI for 5+ years, but again started out on the PS2 back then, only switching to pc later. I'm terrible at using the keyboard to navigate too, so I have that holding me back. I'm betting after reading this thread and seeing the fun things you guys are doing, I'll probably end up with the pc game too.